Holly Moore
FOUNDER & CEO
Holly is responsible for the business strategy, vision and creative direction. Not only has she grown the business from scratch, but she has put together an incredibly talented team of event planning consultants and creative professionals. Holly loves finding out what makes a company or a brand tick, really getting under its skin and showcasing it in all its glory.
Heather Ridge
TEAM MANAGER
Heather is responsible for creating, planning and executing live and virtual events – keeping her finger on the pulse of all the latest trends in venues, food and entertainment. She loves seeing an event come together knows that confidence and a smile goes a long way, making guests feel instantly at home. She knows the value of pre-event communications, engaging and energising guests ahead of time.
Juliet Tripp
GROUP STRATEGY DIRECTOR
Juliet brings over a decade of international events experience to Make Events, where her role sees her drive and deliver the strategic objectives of the business. She’s the event industry’s go to coach and speaker on all things personal development, regularly speaking on global stages including IMEX, EventMB and International Confex, and loves to empower our clients, team, and community with the power of goal setting and employee engagement.
Elliot Garner
HEAD OF DESIGN
Elliot's work ethic is accustomed to working in a fast-paced environment juggling a broad range of corporate jobs and is experienced in working with some very established client names. His unique ability to be flexible in his approach makes him the perfect fit, creating design collateral that blends both digital, print and live experiences.
Joel Bennett
HEAD OF OPERATIONS
With a long background in experiential events and a keen interest in technology, Joel is responsible for all stages of the event life cycle including conceptualising, planning and logistics through to final event delivery and post-event follow up, for both live and virtual events. Joel takes great satisfaction in ensuring both clients and delegates receive the ultimate experience from start to finish.
Dani Briers
NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Courtesy of a 22-year career in a broad range of agency and client-side roles in advertising, media, marketing and production in both large networks as well as independents, Dani brings a depth and breadth of relevant business experience to any challenge, along with his trademark energy and enthusiasm.
Laura Quantrill
EVENT PRODUCER
Laura’s passion in events has developed over the years, working both agency and client side.
Her skill in noticing the smallest details makes her the perfect producer, instilling confidence with our clients and always delivering a seamless experience.
Laura is also our virtual events expert and is the first in the team to explore and source new technologies and solutions for our clients!
Ben McCarthy
SENIOR EVENTS PRODUCER
Ben is responsible for planning live events from start to finish with a background of delivering large-scale events for an array of clients. He loves researching upcoming trends to ensure the events he delivers are cutting-edge and a point of conversation. Ben is a firm believer that all events, regardless of the size, should provide an experience like no other with all details considered and executed.
Paighton Moran
EVENT PRODUCER
Paighton’s main goal is to make people happy. She is passionate about events and thrives off meeting new people, visiting new places and building strong relationships with every person she meets. Whether it is helping on the event process or searching for a venue, Paighton always ensures the client’s experience is beyond what they imagined every time.
Mike Linford
EVENT & VENUE CO-ORDINATOR
Mike is passionate about events and thrives off meeting new people, visiting new places and building strong relationships with every person he meets. Whether it is helping on the event process or searching for a venue, Mike always ensures the client’s experience is beyond what they imagined every time.
Tim Hoare
ON SITE EVENT MANAGER
Experienced, competent and conscientious, Tim ensures that all our events run seamlessly from start to finish. Often the first man on the job or the last man standing, Tim is the onsite event manager acting as the go-between for suppliers, venue and the team.
Tim has worked with Make Events since its inception, managing our warehouse and prop shop and always turns up with a committed, mindful and ever helpful attitude.
Laura Derbyshire
PEOPLE MANAGER
Marie Burgess
ACCOUNTS ADMINSTRATOR
Amy Beresford
SENIOR EVENTS PRODUCER
Amy has worked in the events industry for over 15 years delivering live events, experiential campaigns and videos for multiple household brands and VVIP’s. With experience of delivering events in both the UK and the Middle East she loves nothing more than embracing our values of ‘Getting Stuff Done’ and ensuring all the fundamental logistics and operational aspects are fully covered so the Magic Touches and flair can be brought in to fully enhance the guest experience. She approaches all events with a positive mind-set, fresh ideas and common sense and loves developing relationships with clients and suppliers and the audible ‘gasp’ moment when guests walk in to a stunning room reveal!
Helen Sanders
CREATIVE LEAD
Helen is responsible for shaping and defining the creative approach for our live and virtual events. With over 15 years experience delivering events for internationally recognised brands, her passion is to never stop creating. Be bold, engage with your audiences, spread your message but ultimately evoke an emotional response.
Hannah Dodds
EVENT & VENUE CO-ORDINATOR
Hannah is responsible for assisting producers to create the best events imaginable for clients. She is always on the lookout for anything fun, creative and engaging to help create unique and enjoyable experiences. Whether it’s sourcing a new, interesting venue or finding the trendiest entertainment Hannah is her to show that anything is possible!
Gareth Chadwick
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Laura Baker
EVENT PLANNER
Laura has worked in the Events industry for over 10 years gaining much experience from her 5 years in London working at a large events agency! Her passion has always been in Venue Finding and building strong relationships with suppliers but has more recently been enjoying working on the Private Events alongside Holly. Always willing to get stuck in and help whether it is helping on the event process or searching for a venue Laura is here to show that anything is possible!